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• Is your home at risk if your partner is bankrupt?

  Explains what could happen to your home, if you own or rent it jointly with a partner who goes bankrupt

• Q9 - controlling your bowels and bladder and using a collective device

  Help to fill in Q9: controlling your bowels and bladder and using a collective device. Find out what this means and how to correctly complete the question

• Check if a room counts as an extra bedroom for Housing Benefit

  Find out how the council decide if you have a spare room in your council home, and when they can reduce your Housing Benefit - sometimes called the ‘bedroom tax

• Taking the first step if you need financial support

  If you need financial support, start by checking if you can get any benefits. You could get this financial help, even if you’re working or have savings

• If you used to get tax credits

  Check what you can do now tax credits have ended - for example, claiming other benefits, challenging a decision and making sure your final payment is correct

• Your options if you're in the UK illegally

  How to get British citizenship or a legal immigration status if you're living in the UK illegally

• If you can't keep to your jobseeker's agreement

  What to do if you can’t keep to your jobseeker's agreement because of illness, emergencies or changes to your situation

• Writing off some of your debt if you apply for an administration order

  Tells you how to ask for a composition order, as part of an administration order, to get part of your debt written off

• Appealing a parking ticket

  How to appeal a parking charge notice, penalty charge notice or fixed penalty notice in England and Wales

• Carer's Allowance

  Carer’s Allowance is a benefit for people who are giving regular and substantial care to disabled people. Check if you're eligible and how to make a claim